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Benjamin Smith Barton

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American physician, professor, and botanist (1766-1815)

United StatesScientistsLived 1766 to 1815 · aged 49
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Benjamin Smith Barton was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States and built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. He wrote the first American textbook on botany.

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